Pentecostal Power

In Acts Chapter 2 we read about the Day of Pentecost when the early believers were filled with the Holy Spirit.

This sermon deals with the truth about tongues speaking seen at Pentecost.

Traditionally for the Jews, Pentecost was a day of thanksgiving which marked the end of the grain harvest.

Now in Acts 2 on the very day set aside for the Jews to praise God for a great Harvest, the Lord began to harvest lost souls by the Holy Spirit working through His people in the newly established Church.

Prior to Pentecost God's major witness on earth was the Jewish Nation, now God's major witness on Earth was going to be the newly birthed, Spirit filled Church.

The future ministry of the early disciples of Jesus had to be totally dependent on God.

At Pentecost God was going to provide the Holy Spirit to give the Disciples His power and they had to wait from God's power to come from above.

The Disciples spent time with Jesus after His resurrection, and they patiently waited for the promise of the Father which would give them supernatural power.

When the Holy Spirit came an unseen Power entered Jerusalem and the unseen power entered the followers of Jesus.

Historically for the early Disciples of Christ present at Pentecost in Jerusalem, the Baptism of the Spirit occurred for them on the day of Pentecost.

For the believer, today the Baptism of the Spirit occurs the moment a person trusts Jesus Christ as Saviour. At the very moment of salvation, when a person first becomes a Christian, the Holy Spirit, comes and dwells within and we are spiritually baptised in our union with Christ; and the Church.